Cellular and engineered organoids for cardiovascular models

D Thomas, S Choi, C Alamana, KK Parker… - Circulation …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
An ensemble of in vitro cardiac tissue models has been developed over the past several
decades to aid our understanding of complex cardiovascular disorders using a reductionist …

Leveraging spaceflight to advance cardiovascular research on earth

JM Scott, J Stoudemire, L Dolan, M Downs - Circulation research, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
The direct (eg, radiation, microgravity) and indirect (eg, lifestyle perturbations) effects of
spaceflight extend across multiple systems resulting in whole-organism cardiovascular …

Heart-on-a-chip using human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes with an integrated vascular endothelial layer based on a culture patch as a potential platform for drug …

Y Tang, F Tian, X Miao, D Wu, Y Wang, H Wang… - …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Many strategies have been adopted to construct in vitro myocardium models, which are of
great value to both drug cardiotoxicity evaluation and cardiovascular drug development. In …

Understanding arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy: advances through the use of human pluripotent stem cell models

CJ Chua, J Morrissette-McAlmon, L Tung, KR Boheler - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cardiomyopathies (CMPs) represent a significant healthcare burden and are a major cause
of heart failure leading to premature death. Several CMPs are now recognized to have a …

Optical Mapping of Cardiomyocytes in Monolayer Derived from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

M Djemai, M Cupelli, M Boutjdir, M Chahine - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Optical mapping is a powerful imaging technique widely adopted to measure membrane
potential changes and intracellular Ca2+ variations in excitable tissues using voltage …

4D Thermo-responsive smart hiPSC-CM cardiac construct for myocardial cell therapy

SY Hann, H Cui, T Esworthy… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose 4D fabrication techniques have been utilized for advanced biomedical therapeutics
due to their ability to create dynamic constructs that can transform into desired shapes on …

The origin, progress, and application of cell‐based cardiac regeneration therapy

D Zhuo, I Lei, W Li, L Liu, L Li, J Ni… - Journal of Cellular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become a severe threat to human health, with morbidity
and mortality increasing yearly and gradually becoming younger. When the disease …

Novel method of differentiating human induced pluripotent stem cells to mature cardiomyocytes via Sfrp2

YC Hsueh, RE Pratt, VJ Dzau, CP Hodgkinson - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Current methods to generate cardiomyocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSc)
utilize broad-spectrum pharmacological inhibitors. These methods give rise to …

Harnessing human genetics and stem cells for precision cardiovascular medicine

A Caudal, MP Snyder, JC Wu - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) platforms are valuable for biomedical and
pharmaceutical research by providing tissue-specific human cells that retain patients' …

Overexpression of KCNJ2 enhances maturation of human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes

J Zhou, B Cui, X Wang, H Wang, J Zheng, F Guo… - Stem Cell Research & …, 2023 - Springer
Background Although human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-
CMs) are a promising cell resource for cardiovascular research, these cells exhibit an …